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Product key problem with VM

  • 02-03-2009 8:31pm
    #1
    mach1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭


    Hi I need some help, with VM player.

    I downloaded VMware Converter, and converted my Hard Drive to a VM. Every thing went fine when I loaded it as VM.

    It comes to the welcome screen and ask to be activated.
    I lost the product key so I used PC wizard to get it, but when I enter it tells me that I have typed it in wrong which I know I have not.

    BTW it’s Win XP Pro


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    If you mean the Windows product key then you may have a problem.

    VM isolates you from the real hardware the windows product key was originally activated against. Instead it gives you generic virtual hardware with different names serial numbers/addresses.

    Best to ring microsoft using the number in the activiation wizard to get your existing key activated against the "new" hardware.


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